I hope those are last winter's pictures! I'd hate to think you already have that much snow!

Nice work!

Thanks! Yes, January 2011. We have had two terrible winters now. I was forced to remove snow from the roofs of my house and garage. I measured the snow on my garage roof and it was 4,7 feet high at it´s most

A few photos from the disassembly. This car was one of the nicest cars I have ever come across to work on! There were not one single bolt that was stuck. It all went very smooth.
However I found several bolts that were not correctly tightened and a few that were broken in two. several of them in the driveline I´m very glad that nothing happened during the two summers I used it...

I decided to manufacture a jig for the frame to keep it fixed during the welding.
I had a few beams that I thought would be strong enough. I aligned the beams to be completely horizontal in all directions and then they were welded together keeping track of the alignment the whole time. It turned out pretty ok (within 2mm).

The Jerry cans and the welding machine is not a good combination I think

The frame was positioned 500mm above the jig. This gave good acess to all areas of the frame.
Aligned the frame to be level with the jig to give a fixed surface to measure everything from, before, during and after.
Welded the frame to the jig using 50x50mm beams (2"x2").
This work took me a few evenings to finish but I think it was well worth it.

Some photos of the frame welding. I started by grinding all starts and stops of the old welds to smooth them out as well as remowing all sections of bad quality welds. Most of them looks to be of bad quality but evidently the frame is ok.
I measured the frame thoroughly according to the C3 frame drawings, taking notes on all measurements before I started welding. By this I had good reference measurements to compare with after the frame was finished.

Shifted the weld sequence from underside of the frame to the upside the whole time and also welding on many different locations to avoid warping and heat build up. This took several evenings to complete for me.

The rear kick up reinforcement beam was boxed. I have not seen this done before but it felt like a good idea.
I was really surprised by the soft steel in the frame. It was also quite difficult to avoid alot of weld spray. Tried to change the weld parameters as well as protective gas flow. No success Perhaps a different gas would have been better but my guess is that the steel used for theese frames are full of contaminations.